Two Sociology Ph.D. students have been accepted into the CSU Summer Extension Internship Program. The award for each internship is $4000 for ten weeks. Interns each make a final Extension program and poster presentation at CSU’s annual Extension Forum held on campus each fall.

Emilia Ravetta was selected for the Larimer County Farmers’ Market internship. She will work with Erika Szymanski (English), Tony Koski (Horticulture & Landscape Architecture), Alison Stoven O’Connor, (Extension horticulture agent for Larimer County), and Emily Alligood (Larimer County Farmers’ Market Coordinator). Emilia will conduct qualitative research to help understand how the market functions as a community resource and community space. She will also help establish connections between CSU, the Farmers’ Market and the community. Stop by her pop-up market stall this summer!

Azmal Hossan was selected for the “Agricultural Water Use in the Upper Colorado Basin” internship. He will spend the summer at CSU’s Western Colorado Research Center in Grand Junction. Azmal will work with Dr. Perry Cabot (Research Scientist and Extension Leader, Western Colorado Research Center), Julee Stephensen (Director of Communications, Office of Engagement and Extension), Olivia Clark (Grand County Extension Director), and various stakeholder groups like Trout Unlimited, The Nature Conservancy, Grand County ranchers and irrigators, and Colorado Water Conservation Board. Azmal will help communicate the changing nature of CSU’s statewide engagement mission through community outreach via a variety of website and social media platforms that have not been effectively utilized by the Western Colorado Research Center units. He will also participate in planting, irrigation management, and data collection at the agricultural research campus. The internship aligns with Azmal’s Ph.D. research and his InTERFEWS appointment.